St. Louis Windows Phone Meetup 2013 is just around the corner

If you happen to live in the St. Louis area or just happen to be passing through on February 23rd you may want to stop by the Triumph Grill for the 2013 Windows Phone St. Louis Meetup.

It's an opportunity for Windows Phones developers and fans to come together and share ideas and experiences with like minded folk. This is the third (or is it the fourth?) meetup in St. Louis and Nokia has helped sponsor each event. This go around, Nokia is providing a Lumia 900 as a door prize.

The event will start at 12PM and run until 4PM and attendees will be responsible for their food and drinks. If you plan to attend, you can sign up here so organizers will know to reserve enough seats. There is also a discussion going on here in the Windows Phone Central Forums about the meetup in case you have any questions, comments or suggestions.

It would make sense if you were a 12-year-old making his first assignment on a computer, but that's not the case. At first it's an old font, just like Arial, Verdana, and what else. The fact that it's not as clean as Segoe WP strikes me as a designer with a huge 'splosion.

Oh my God, no custom ringtones. Run for your lives. Nevermind the fact that it's the smoothest most beautiful OS in known to mankind, possibly straight from God himself. Ok, little dramatic, you get my point.

Nokia gave me a supply of Lumia 900s (and one Lumia 710) just after their WP8 devices were released. Getting a WP8 device was impossible at the time due to low availability on their end. Heck, even my Nokia contact didn't have a WP8 phone issued to him. I suspect they'll send me some WP8 devices during the first half of this year to give away at future St. Louis Meetups. Nokia has been the only WP mfgr. to ever support the STL WP Meetup. I have asked HTC and Samsung on multiple occasions, but in each instance all I heard were crickets. Nokia was all over my Meetup after I asked them to join in.
Nokia is great to work with and they really understand goodwill gestures.

"I will be giving away one Nokia Lumia 900 to a very lucky attendee. Thanks for the donation, Nokia." Boooooo! In all honesty, I'd like to go and this is a great idea, but isn't it slightly embarrassing to provide a Lumia 900 to one lucky attendee?

Not at all. Nokia has been great to my meetup group. They're the only WP mfgr. to ever support us. They gave me a supply of Lumia 900s in 2012 and this is the last one I have to give away and the supply will be expended. I stretched the supply as best I could. WP8 devices from Nokia were impossible due to market shortages we are all aware of. They'll get around to getting me some WP8 devices, I am sure of it. I never bite the hand that feeds our St. Louis meetup.

SevenDead1ySinz...Puhlease! I totally enjoy my Lumia 900 - yeah, the NEW one I bought this past November :) If I felt like I was significantly shortchanging myself, I wouldn't have bought the L900 over the Lumia 920, as I considered both for an off contract purchase. WP8.0 just didn't have substantial bells and whistles over WP7.5/7.8 for my needs.

I highly doubt that the person who gets the prized Lumia 900 will turn it down!

I don't refuse gifts from Nokia. They're the only WP mfgr. to ever send me anything to give away. They'll get around to sending me some WP8 devices. I think Nokia can send me whatever they want. T-shirts, pencils, phones, whatever. I'll never reject any items from them. I'll happily give away all of them to grateful attendees.

I'll be there. That wedge mouse that was given away at the last one was a nice prize. However, meeting local developers and other aficionados, is a real boon. Food's pretty good at the Triumph Grill, too.